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If you use social networking channels ranging from Facebook to MySpace in the marketing of your small business, you might want to learn more about what social networking demographics have to say about the details of the audience your favorite social networking site reaches. Thanks to social media consultant Radiah K. Givens (check her out @rad4444 Read More

A seven-year-old entrepreneur raised $2,300 for a local humane society with her lemonade stand according to this online feature from Inc.com. Seven-year-old Abby, proprietor of the 1st Annual Lemonade Stand For the Greenville Humane Society, was profiled by the magazine as part of its The Best Lemonade Stand in America 2009 contest. Abby says she Read More

Guy Kawasaki shows how to turn your business card into a marketing tool with this cool new set of cards designed with his company's logo on the front and his information on back. Click through to the video and you'll see how this idea gets even better as you peel the logo off the front of the card and it becomes a little promotional sticker. Obv Read More

Foreign investment in American companies could be rewarded with a US visa or even a green card, if the investment results in creation of at least 10 jobs for American workers. This story from CNN Small Business details a program already in place but set to expire at the end of September. Needless to say a group of U.S. Senators is pushing to save Read More

These 10 tips for using Google Alerts in your small business come from Small Business Informer and are a great resource for any small business. Bloggers have long known the value of using Google Alerts to keep up with breaking news in their niche and to get topic ideas based on the latest buzz. No matter what your product or service, you'll find Read More

In this great guest post from theorist Seth D. Brown on Jeff "Ski" Kinsey's blog, Seth looks at how to avoid spreading yourself thin in the small media departmnent. Instead of worrying about all the applications out there, Seth suggests looking at what each service does for you and avoiding redundancies that consume too much time and return lit Read More

Business Pundit has this post originally reported by The Dayton Business Journal about an Ohio pizza chain with the great small business marketing idea of offering 1960's era prices to celebrate its 44th anniversary. The chain expected to sell 20,000 pizzas during the promotion which apparently lasted just one day, Aug. 10. I don't know how much Read More

Ann Howard is a general business counselor at SBTDC, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, takes a pass at this oft discussed aspect of starting a business. To be honest, business plans come in all shapes and sizes and the type of plan often depends on whether you plan to pitch to investors, seek financing or just go out and start looking for Read More

Buying an existing business has certain advantages over starting a new one. For example, says certified public accountant Amber Hill, buying an existing business allows you to get a good picture of how much you'll be able to make off the venture based on past sales. An important tip is to ask around to determine the business's reputation in the Read More

Small business bookkeeping is important for the health of any small business. If you don't have a good set of books, you don't have very well business, says Daniel Diener, co-owner of the Business Success Center in Central Texas, in this informative video. Though Diener says keeping books is probably a business owner's least favorite task, it' Read More